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Show CHICAGO GRAIN Chicago, 111.. March 2S. Wheat cased off today on account of general rains southwest. Commission house buying set in, however, as soon as the market had undergone a moderate dip. Decreasing stocks In this country coun-try and expected lighter world shipments ship-ments had considerable to do with preventing any radical decline. Opening Open-ing prices were 1-8 to l-Ofl-it lowr. and a slight additional setback ensued, before the market becan to harden. In corn, there was a fair amount of buying orders, chiefly from out of town. Rain Interfering with the Argentine Ar-gentine harvest tended to help the bulls, but cash demand hero and elso-where elso-where was hoi -urgent. . Prices, started start-ed unchanged to 1-Sc higher, reacted somewhat and then rallied ngaln. Oats held steady and offerings were moderate. LosBeued receipts of hogs gave strength to provisions. First sales ranged from 2 1-2 to 7 l-2c up and there was a subsequent furthor advance. ad-vance. ... Money, New York, N. Y March 2S. Call money nominal: no loans. Time loans Weak; 00 days, 2 1-2 2 3-4 per cent; 90 days, 2 3-igi:5 per cent; C months, 33 14 per cent. Mercantile paper, 3 3-4ffi4 1-4 per cent; steeling exchange, easy; GO dayc, $4.S4.60; domand, $4.86.20; commercial com-mercial bills, $4.83 3-4. Bar silver, 5Sc. Mexican dollars, 45 l-2c. Government bonds, steady; railroad bonds, easy. New York Stock List. (Last Sale) Amalgamated Copper 75 1-2 American Beet Sugar, bid.... 22 1-2 American Cotton Oil 43 Amer. Smelt. &. Refining .... G8 7-S American Sugar Refining 99 1-2 American Tel. & Tel 122 Anaconda Mining Co 35 1-2 Atchison 9G 1-1 Atlantic Coast Line 122 Baltimore &r Ohio .., 89 3-1 ! Brooklyn Rapid Transit 92 Canadian Pacific , 205 1-4 Chesapeake & Ohio '. . k 53 Chicago & Northwestern, bid. 133 1-t Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul 99 1-8 Colorado Fuel &. Iron 32 l-t Colorado & Southern, bid ... 23 I Delaware & Hudson, bid 148 H Denver &. Rio Grande 12 M Brlp 29 1-S fj General Electric, bid ....... .J45 Great Northern, pfd '. ..12G1-8 1 Great Northern Ore Ctff. ... 35 7-8 j Illinois Central 1 10 1-1 B Interborough-Met 14 3-4 1 Proferred 59 1-2 Inter Harvester 105 People's Gas .......122 5-S i LouIbvIIIo & Nnshvlllo 1 136 1-4 Missouri Pacific 21 3-8 Missouri, Kansas & Tcxaa.., 16 7-S " Lehigh Valley ,..11?. 1-1 National Lead, bid J 47 New York Central SO Norfolk & Western 102 3-1 j Northern Pacific 113 Pennsylvania 110 3-8 ' Pullman Palace Car, bid ....152 1-2 ? Reading 1G5 'j Rock Island Co ,.. 1 3-1 ft Preferred , 6 7-8 ,1 Southern Pnclflc 93 3i Southern Railway 25 1-2 ) Union Pacific 15S 1-8 ; United States Steel G3 1-S '; Preferred .-..110 ! Wabash 1 5-S 1 Western Union G2 7 8 ; New Haven G9 3-S . fj - |